HouseCanary's Latest Rental Report Reveals Strong Demand Despite Economic Uncertainty in Q1 2023

High Mortgage Rates, Low Inventory and Uncertainty in the Housing Market Drove Higher Demand for Rentals in the First Quarter 2023

While Recent Decline in Interest Rates Could Stabilize Demand for Home Purchases, Lasting Economic Uncertainty May Push Demand for Rentals Upwards

Demand for Rentals is Outpacing the Increase in Inventory, Resulting in an Increase in Median Listing Prices and Days on the Market

HouseCanary, Inc. (“HouseCanary”), a national brokerage known for its real estate valuation accuracy, today released its latest National Rental Report, which compares insights from Q1 2022 and Q1 2023 to explore trends shaping the U.S. rental market for single-family detached listings, including price and supply shifts across the nation’s top 79 metropolitan statistical areas (“MSAs”) with the most rental market activity. The report can be downloaded and viewed here.

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HouseCanary tracks listing volume, new listings and median listing price information for 46 states and 204 individual MSAs. The findings in today’s report represent an aggregation and summary of all single-family detached listing records between January 2020 and March 2023.

Chris Stroud, Co-founder and Chief of Research at HouseCanary, commented: "High unaffordability and the uncertainty of where the housing market is headed has slowed down property acquisitions heavily, resulting in potential buyers minimizing risk by looking towards the single-family rental market. Additionally, given that rent inflation has such a significant influence on overall inflation, a decline in rent inflation will have to come from apartments and multifamily in order to bring some relief to overall inflation."

Following a thorough analysis of the aggregated data, HouseCanary’s report identified the following key findings about the rental market for single-family detached listings in the first quarter of 2023:

• Rental properties stayed on the market for an average of 30.4 days at the end of Q1 2023, roughly a 43.4% increase compared to Q1 2022 and a 12.6% increase sequentially. Over 35 MSAs saw a 50% increase in average days on market over the last year, most notably in the Southeast, with New Orleans, Raleigh, NC and Durham, NC seeing the most significant increases.

• Inflation continues to impact the housing market. Mortgage rates hit a two-month low in Q1 2023 and are now hovering just above 6%. This has helped stabilize purchase demand, bringing more potential renters into the market. The next few months will be very telling for the future of the SFR market, as increasing mortgage rates will likely continue to push potential buyers into the rental market.

• Median national rent has increased 6% since the same time last year. The seasonal cooling in the rental market seen at the end of 2022 quickly reversed in Q1 2023, as many homebuyers waiting for the buying market to cool cut their losses and began renting, pushing rental prices upwards.

• Rental prices continue to remain high despite increasing supply. Regardless of the number of bedrooms, all rentals saw a YoY increase in price with the highest increase being in one bedroom rentals, which saw a 10.8% YoY increase.

• The South experienced the largest YoY growth rates in rental inventory out of any regions in the U.S. In addition, rental properties in Southern states also experienced the highest growth rates for how long they stayed on the market.

Additional findings can be reviewed in the full report here.

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